Quotes from Philip Green

I was never going to be a scholar.

It is about attention to detail and then the minutest detail on top of that. I am an owner, and yet I'll argue about the sign on the wall.

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

I used to leave my house at 6:30 in the morning, and I would visit 10 shops every Saturday, starting at the furthest shop I'd decided to go to that day, ending up in Oxford Street 12 hours later.

On what possible basis would I want to stop someone from buying BHS if I had tried to save it?

I have a very clear conscience.

I think everybody, from every end of the market place, from young through to old, wants to be fashionable. Everybody. Women want to feel like they're wearing the right merchandise, regardless of age. They want to be trendy.

When I am driving my car down the street, I try not to go down the potholes.

When I've had a talk with someone, I like them to leave unconfused. No need for contention.

I think I've got a good feel. A feel for... being able to walk with different people. Or for being able to look at people and think, 'Yeah, I might know what they want to wear.'

Stand in my lobby at 5:30 P.M., and there is no one who gets out of the lift who is not on a gadget. No one is talking to each other. I get in the lift and say, 'Hello,' and everyone's head is down tapping on a screen.

I wasn't a good school pupil. I was interested in business.

I think I pick more winners than losers.

I am a positive thinker. You have to have this positive energy to get somewhere.

I could spend my life having meetings, a meeting to have another meeting, a hundred meetings to have another thousand meetings. It's not what I'm about. I don't want to have to get in a queue; that's not how I like to live.

Good, bad or indifferent, if you are not investing in new technology, you are going to be left behind.

I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis's and Owen Owen, only for a short time, and I found department stores personally difficult.

I don't regret anything I haven't done.

You are forced to have the best data capture, the best information, when you have goods in hundreds of factories around the world, and the question is: 'Where is everything?' And how do you bring it all together?

You've got to love what you do to really make things happen.

I hope and believe all the people that worked very closely with me at BHS for all those years, and some for the whole journey, will know it was never my intention for the business to have the ending it did.

If you go 90 yards in a hundred-yard race, you come last. Usain Bolt slows down for the last half a yard, but for 99 yards, he is that far ahead that he can. In our business, you can't be far enough ahead. It is such a competitive marketplace.

You're going to find England, unfortunately, is a place where you get a lot of jealous, envious, you know, negative people. That's how it is.